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Full moon in Luis Jan. 27, 2013 by Sarah Fuhro

The Full Moon in Luis is the opportunity to integrate personal expression (Moon inLeo) with community awareness (Sun in Aquarius). The Leo Moon is the outlet for a patternwhich includes Neptune (the dreamer, the musician, the mystic), Chiron (the healer) and Pluto(lord of the underworld). This combination makes the full throated roar of Leonic expressionparticularly powerful. What do you have to say, which needs to be heard by the world at large?There will be healing available from Chiron and intense truth telling demanded by Pluto in thisarrangement of planets. Over the next few days as you watch (and perhaps feel) the Moonrounding to Full, listen to your own creative impulse. You will have some part of the answer towhat the world needs now. Your gift of expression may be in words, in song, in action, as a giftof beauty, or as internal revelation you will carry into the world at large.

The Sabian Symbol for this degree of the Moon says: ‘A communist activist spreadinghis revolutionary ideals. Keynote: The emotional and ideological attempt to return to a state ofnon-differentiation and chaos as a prelude to a new type of order. This might describe themotives of Aaron Swartz who was about to be prosecuted for downloading academic journalsfrom MIT. ‘We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share themwith the world. We need to take stuff that’s out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need tobuy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals andupload them to file sharing networks.’ His death by suicide has opened the discussion ofinformation sharing to a wider audience. Here is another reason to look at sharing as aneconomic system! http://occupy.com/article/digital-disruption-technology-and-economics-99.

Western culture has teetered back and forth between the ideals of the ‘self’ and therequirements of the state for a long time. With this full Moon perhaps we are ready to see bothin a new light. There is the personal battle to understand what we have to say and the concernabout society’s reaction, and the larger battle between those who take because they have thepower to take and the earth’s reaction. All this is contained in the pattern of this Leo Aquariusopposition between the Sun who is at home in Leo and the Moon’s journey through that sign.

The two planets who are considered the ‘rulers’ of Aquarius (the Sun’s sign) are Saturnand Uranus. Saturn squares Sun and Moon in this chart. He is time and ancestors, the lord ofmanifestation and the barrier to manifestation. Uranus, who is in the company of the goddessAthena is urging Sun and Moon to think in new ways as they attempt to synthesize the needs ofthe individual to express creative gifts even as society claims or refuses the offering. He is thevoice of the still invisible, and always unexpected next turn in the road.

Jupiter in company with Vesta who guards the hearth and the resources of the home, isalso a part of this particular tapestry. They have been will be traveling together since June 2012,which may be the reason that women’s issues have arisen in many contexts. Jupiter is inretrograde and traveling through the sign of Gemini, where he tends to talk, talk, talk. It’simportant to sift through rhetoric to discover a deeper truth, and Vesta is the quiet truth behindthe bravado.

Keeping our Ancient Wisdom Alive
The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs.
Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower
Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops
and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted
in the past, presented in the language of the present. To learn more, please visit
www.sarahfuhro.com.